Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Liquid crystal is a state of matter being intermediate between solid and liquid. Liquid crystal
materials exhibit both orientational order and fluidity. While liquid crystals have long been …

Bacteria are among the oldest and most abundant species on Earth. Bacteria successfully
colonize diverse habitats and play a significant role in the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are ubiquitous in display technologies. The orientational ordering in the
nematic phase of LCs gives rise to structural anisotropy, the ability to form topological …

Self-propelled bacteria are marvels of nature with a potential to power dynamic materials
and microsystems of the future. The challenge lies in commanding their chaotic behavior. By …

Active matter exemplified by suspensions of motile bacteria or synthetic self-propelled
particles exhibits a remarkable propensity to self-organization and collective motion. The …

We review recent work on active colloids or swimmers, such as self-propelled
microorganisms, phoretic colloidal particles, and artificial micro-robotic systems, moving in …

Using dynamic light scattering, we study orientational fluctuation modes in the nematic
phase of a self-assembled lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal (LCLC) disodium cromoglycate …

Active matter exhibits remarkable collective behaviour in which flows, continuously
generated by active particles, are intertwined with the orientational order of these particles …

Active colloids in liquid crystals (ACLCs) are an active matter with qualitatively new facets of
behavior as compared to active matter that becomes isotropic when relaxed into an …